Rich Eisen and the podcast crew recap Week 1 of the NFL season before Rich dials up Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald’s Cardinals fell 27-24 to the St. Louis Rams on Sunday, even with the All-Pro receiver hauling in eight receptions for 80 yards and two touchdowns. Fitzgerald and Rich discuss how new coach Bruce Arians has changed the mindset in the Cardinals’ locker room and is putting quarterback Carson Palmer and the rest of the team in the right situations to succeed in 2013.

Al Michaels then joins the podcast in-studio for discussion about Week 1 and looks ahead to the rest of the season. Michaels is fresh off of calling Peyton Manning’s seven-touchdown performance in the Denver Broncos’ “Thursday Night Kickoff” win over the Baltimore Ravens. Michaels then went to Dallas for the Cowboys’ “Sunday Night Football” win over the New York Giants. Rich and the crew surprise Michaels halfway through the interview with a phone call from his former “Monday Night Football” booth partner, the always hilarious Dennis Miller. Miller and Michaels take a trip down memory lane and share some great behind-the-scenes stories from the broadcast booth.

The show rounds out with seven-time Pro Bowl left guard, and University of Michigan alum, Steve Hutchinson dialing in to discuss the Wolverines’ big win Saturday over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. An All-American during his time at Michigan, the recently retired Hutchinson was in Ann Arbor for the big game Saturday evening.

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With the first week of preseason games under our belts and the season just a few short weeks away, all of us here at the NFL are preparing for another dynamite season of pigskin. In anticipation of this I decided to round up my Emmy nominated “NFL GameDay Morning” colleagues fresh off their day long photo shoot in Los Angeles. Read →

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Unbelievably, after a four-year run, this is the last-ever incarnation of “The Rich Eisen Podcast.” Frequently, in this business, shows like this don’t end at the host’s request or behest. Usually, shows named after the host come to an abrupt close when the host is shown the door by security while holding office belongings in a cardboard box.

Thankfully, the reason why I’m shuttering this podcast after four wonderful years is because it’s turning into a daily three-hour TV show airing on DirecTV’s Audience Channel No. 239 and streaming live on the latest venture brought to you by NFL Media, the NFL Now app. NFL Now is also the home to the video archive of the show, which will also be available in audio podcast form on Podcast One as well as iTunes and virtually every other place you’ve been able to download this program over its lifespan. Best of all for our listeners, NFL Now is internationally available too.

It’s truly exciting news for your humble host and my podcast compadres Chris Law and Chris Brockman, who are traveling with the show’s move to a bigger and broader platform.

I started this podcast at the outset of the 2010 season because I thought there was a space in which to connect with the NFL Network fan base and have a conversation about the NFL and the entertainment world in one sitting. And I was rewarded with four years of stupendous football chatter involving fascinating figures from the gridiron and guests from across the TV, movie and music spectrum. Best yet, it did in fact get me closer to myriad football fans worldwide. I can not thank you enough for your passionate listenership. Please follow the show with us into the new horizon. We could not have done it without you. Thanks again and, as always, enjoy this listen.